Fox News (FNC) is shaking up its weekend lineup again. Weeks after the departure of host Dan Bongino, FNC revealed Thursday night it would be rearranging its programming.
And ending Steve Hilton's Sunday opinion program, โThe Next Revolution.โ
In a statement, the network said Hilton will remain employed as a contributor.
Hilton also released a video on social media with more on his next steps:
FNC's new weekend lineup is set to debut Saturday, June 3.
As Deadline reports:
Megan Albano, Senior Vice President ofย The Fiveย & Weekend Programming at Fox News Channel indicated that The Big Saturday/Sunday Showย will becomeย The Big Weekend Show,ย airing at 7 p.m. ET on Saturdays and Sundays while a new entry,ย Fox News Saturday Night,ย will premiereย at 10 p.m. ET. Trey Gowdy'sย Sunday Night in Americaย will move into the spot formerly occupied by Hilton's show at 9 p.m. ET.
In making the announcement, Albano said, โWe are excited to launch a new dynamic weekend line-up that will further solidify our position as the number one cable news network for more than two decades. We thank Steve Hilton for his show's contributions and look forward to continuing to feature his valuable insights across our daytime and primetime programming.โ
The Big Weekend Showโs former 5 p.m., ET time slot will now feature encore presentations ofย The Fiveย & the newย Fox News Saturday Nightย followed byย The Fox Reportย with Jon Scott, which will remain at 6 p.m., ET on weekends.ย Fox News Saturday Nightย will feature a rotating lineup of FNC personalities offering a lighter take on the news of the week.
FNC's weekend primetime lineup will continue at 8 p.m., ET on Saturdays with Brian Kilmeade'sย One Nationย followed byย Lawrence Jones Cross Countryย at 9 p.m., ET. Then at 10 p.m. ET, FNC will debutย Fox News Saturday Night.
In contrast to Tucker Carlson's abrupt departure, Dan Bongino told journalist Megyn Kelly that he left FNC amicably after failing to come to an agreement on his contract extension.
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Mark me as not one of Fox followers. I donโt intend to allow them to a second of my thoughts, Goodbye Fox.
Sad, Fox has fallen and failed as a reliable source for news and information.
Congratulations, Megan Albano. Steve Hilton was fantastic, with some of the most passionate, spot-on, and well-articulated insight Fox offered. Other than a relative handful of exceptions, Fox continues to digress into a blah, blah, blah, boring source of who-cares programming. Again, congratulations on your road to mediocrity. I will definitely be spending less time with Fox.
steve and levin were the only ones left I watch, too bad hilton is gone to hell with fox I’ll go to the blaze to watch Levin.
Steve Hilton was one of the few good reasons to tune into Fox on Sunday night. Now all they need to do is get rid of Mark Levin and โ there will be NO REASON to watch Fox on Sunday. EVER. They REALLY DO want to get rid of their viewers, don’t they?
Thank God for Newsmax! Rob Schmitt at 7 and Greg Kelly at 10 are superb true Conservatives. Newly arrived Chris Plante show at 9 slot needs some work but Radio is his true forte.
But Chris Plante has own Juan Williams.
They will not be #1 for very long now.
Weekend line up:
One Nation, X Country, Fox News: Sat PM
Trey Gowdy: Sunday 7PM
And another one bites the dust! Steve Hilton is a true conservative who speaks his mind with all the facts at hand. That, of course, is no longer the policy of woke Fox News now. G-d willing, he, Tucker Carlson, Hannity, Ingraham, Gutfeld – all of them – will join together and start a new show. I would be more than willing to pay a yearly fee for this, just as I do with Bill O’Reilly’s wonderful program.
Before Tucker left, I had tired of watching Hannity, tiresome, Ingraham, boring. The Five, Bream, Falkner, McCallum, and Roberts, are all pretty good but I usually miss them. Most of the smaller hosts all do very well if I happen to watch TV. But Tucker was the only one I made a point to watch. He was a quirk but was smart and had good monologues. None of the others had that. Owners made a big mistake.